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- Come along and listen to our keynote speaker, Professor Dava Newman, Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, Harvard-MIT, former Nasa deputy administrator, «Humanity becoming interplanetary and the urgency of saving spaceship Earth».
- Discover CSEM’s technologies and their importance for the evolution of our industrial partners within the revolution of the digital economy
- See our most recent demonstrators, which showcase our technologies that will shape the future
- Find out the winner of the CSEM Digital Journey.
- Finish the day with a journey to the moon, as we present a retrospective on the Apollo mission, led by Lukas Viglietti, Pilot at SWISS International Airlines and President at SwissApollo.
Venue:
This event will take place at the Congress Center, Messeplatz 21, Basel Switzerland
Date & Time:
Welcome of particpants from 9:00 on Tuesday, November 12, 2019.
Conference starts at 9:30 and ends at 17:30. The day will close with a networking aperitif.
This fifth CSEM Business Day will be introduced by Mario El-Khoury, CEO of CSEM SA. This will be followed by Prof. Dava Newmann’s keynote speech and three parallel technological sessions: digitalization, energy, and precision manufacturing in life sciences.
After a standing lunch with CSEM experts, and an exhibition of our latest technology demonstrators, the CSEM Digital Journey 2019 award ceremony will take place. We will conclude the day’s journey heading towards the moon, with Lukas Vigletti’s retrospective on the Apollo mission.
CSEM Digital Journey 2019 award ceremony
CSEM first organized the challenge in 2018 to exclusively help SMEs «embrace» the digital movement. It works as follows: any Swiss company with less than 250 employees, who already generate a turnover can use the digital technologies of the R&D center to propose an innovation. The winner then receives technological support from CSEM up to an amount of CHF 100,000 to make their project a reality.
Last year, Soleco, Vela Solaris and Geminise, a consortium of companies from Zurich, emerged as the winners. Throughout the year, they worked with CSEM engineers to develop the digital platform Chrystalball, which optimizes the management of renewable energy in buildings. The launch of their product is planned for 2020.
CSEM will unveil the name of this year’s lucky winner on November 12, during its Business Day, at an event designed to present to companies its latest technological innovations. The event also welcomes scientist Dava Newman, a former NASA deputy administrator, known in particular for revolutionizing astronaut attire.
The Finalists
Kokorolingua (NE): Awarded several prizes, Kokorolingua proposes to create a digital language device to extend its early English learning activities. To do this, it intends to use CSEM’s wireless communication, geolocation and automatic learning expertise.
Schmid Federnfabrik (ZH): Based in Oetwil am See, Schmid Federnfabrik produces springs, which are crucial across many different domains, ranging from automotive to wind power plants. It wants its product to become more «intelligent» in order to allow its customers to monitor wear and tear over time and thus anticipate maintenance or replacement needs.
Qualimatest (GE): By leveraging CSEM’s expertise in high-performance intelligent vision systems, Qualimatest intends to launch a «digital guardian» on the market. This digital companion will be integrated into machines to improve industrial processes and for the detection and reporting of anomalies.
Vivent (VD): Vivent use machine learning to interpret electrophysiological signals from plants. Their objective: To enable farmers to diagnose early – even before visual symptoms – an insect outbreak or fungal attack. Vivent want to combine various digital skills from CSEM to finalize their product.
Vigilitech (AR): Vigilitech wants to develop a solution for monitoring and measuring physiological parameters such as the heart and respiratory rhythms of human beings or animals. To this end, it wishes to exploit CSEM’s recognized skills in advanced algorithms in relation to this high-potential field.
The Judging Panel
President:
Georges Kotrotsios, Member of CSEM’s Executive Board, Head of Marketing & Business Development at the center
- Silvio Bonaccio, ETH Zurich, Technology Transfer Manager
- Nicolas Bürer, Director of Digital Switzerland
- Marc Gruber, EPFL, Vice-President of Innovation
- Raphaël Rollier, Head of Innovation, Swiss Topographic Office
- Robert Rudolph, Swissmem, Member of the Executive Board of Swissmem, Head of the Innovation and Digitisation Division
- Christian Wasserfallen, Member of the National Council
Source: Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique, CSEM, 26.09.2019
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